PALAGGI, ḤAYYIM:

Turkish rabbinical author; born at Smyrna 1788; died there 1869; maternal grandson of Joseph b. Ḥayyim Hazan, author of "Ḥiḳre Leb"; pupil of Isaac Gategno, author of "Bet Yiẓḥaḳ." After serving as president of the tribunal in his native city, he was appointed ḥakambashi there in 1854. His declining years were saddened by his deposition, although he was reinstated and held the position until the year before his death, and by disturbances among the people. He was held in great veneration by the masses; and at his funeral the hearse was escorted by a battalion of troops—an honor which has been shown by the Turkish authorities to two or three chief rabbis only.